Fear and Loathing in Vegas
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The unprecedented Cup run of the Vegas Golden Knights in their inaugural season is a story for the ages: A team no one expected to even make the playoffs won an entire conference. Despite this incredible fortune, there is plenty of risk involved in such an enterprise: Greatly accelerating your window due to heightened expectations, juggling between new blood and loyalty to the old core, and straddling a line between competitiveness and outright desperation.
Vegas, in these past five years, have done everything in their power to get to another Cup final, but has their eagerness to do so damaged them? Has going all-in every single year been to their detriment? Was the insane Cup run in their first year more of a curse than a blessing?
With the way the Golden Knights have managed their success, it may have been more of a curse than once let on.
Now watch as this becomes hideously out of date next year as they go deep in the playoffs again. - กีฬา
Well, I did say they'd win a Cup the next season...
Congratulations, you magnificent SOB. You need to come out here and make $$$.
I was wrong about the Golden Knights this year too, but I’m glad they finally got their immortality tonight.
This video aged too good right now.
Came here for this lol.
Also Clippers Legacy of Failure when?
I was just about to say VGK should thank you as your predicted last year.
Vegas: We almost won the Cup and the team is a special squad.
Also Vegas: Better change everything
Yeah because keeping the same team when you lose in the finals has ALWAYS worked out. Especially when that team would never do it again
@@joeroganreal worked for tampa
@@lorenzovalencia6816 and Pittsburgh..........and Detroit
@@joeroganreal Bruh, what? If you are able to make the finals you have to have an amazing team.
Shouldn’t have fired Gallant
Vegas lost me the minute they fired Gerard Gallant. That was infuriating. He had the respect of the locker room! He was the coach necessary to get back to the cup.
Facts
Gallant was fired bc Foley thought the team had "become complacent" in the midst of a 4 game skid while atop the PacDiv
Washington fans feel the same way man, we let Barry Trotz go the year after we won the cup, absolutely ridiculous.
Rangers fans thank the Knights for their idiocy
@@Boobiejonshorts isles fan here, i feel your pain
Fleury, Lehner, and Thompson. Three goalies that have been treated horribly by the management. Truly the only VGK members that I empathize(d) with.
i don’t feel bad for lerner to be honest. dude tried to make a reporter out to be an ass before getting season ending surgery.
The Knights upper management with their actions have essentially said that they don't care about chemistry or loyalty or the actual human emotions of their players. As long as they get back to the Cup, that's all that matters. They neglected to realize that team unity and chemistry was a major factor in the success in their inaugural season. They've become more soulless, cutthroat, and unlikable every year since and the product has suffered as a result.
I don’t really see how Thompson has been mistreated the others for sure
@@paradiseconnor yet
Lehner is really garbage
And now as of last night, the Knights have claimed their first Stanley Cup.
Revisiting this gem in 2023. We’re neither fearful nor loathsome anymore. Congrats Knights on the win!
Yes for real
Damn right
What makes the Pacioretty trade even worse is that not only did McPhee favor Glass more, but Montreal did as well, but he convinced them to take Suzuki instead
EDIT: Welp, now they’ve gone from Nick Suzuki to Pacioretty to… future considerations? Elite asset management
Suzuki scoring that empty netter on them too just rubbed it in. I love it
@@giacdeswiage3943 you love to see it
Different sport but in 2002 the Boston Celtics traded Joe Johnson to the Phoenix Suns and the Suns wanted Kedrick Brown. General manager Chris Wallace talked the Suns into taking Johnson. Brown was out of the league a year later and Johnson just retired TWENTY years later after being a star in Phoenix and Atlanta.
And now my Preds are stuck with Glass in the minors
Lollllllll
"Ill see you next year when they win the cup!"
Can you make a video predicting the bears to win the superbowl? Lol
And guess who just made the 2023 Stanley Cup Finals. UrinatingTree’s powers of forecasting and jinxing are godlike.
And they won
Back when the knights exploded into the finals I remember saying that this was tree's most impressive jinxing effort ever. He was just stating the blatantly obvious, This expansion team will suck in its first year of existence, a given in the world of professional sports... and what do you know the FIRST expansion team in tree's youtube tenure just so happens to be great... despite how incredible that jinx was... I do vaguely remember tree coming out with a praising video for the knights. "Everything they have touched has turned to gold thus far and I'm actually starting to really like them as a team moving forward. Will I admit that I was totally wrong?... not yet. It's very early in their history and the REAL test of their staying power will be 3-4 years down the road." - UT, Revisiting... The Vegas Golden Knights...a video from 4 years ago.... Tree... what did you do?
I honestly don't know.
@@UrinatingTree whatever you do don't touch the red wings we're finally turning a corner and if we mess this coaching hire up I will cry for a very long time so please don't jinx us
First he jinxed them into going to the Cup (and probably winning it if they hadn't been stood in the way of by a vastly superior Washington Capitals team) with "The Vegas Golden Knights: Why?" and then jinxed them again by making management into the useless shit pile it is now with "Revisiting... The Vegas Golden Knights".
@@sportsnstuff5557 As long as he talks shit about the Sharks I'm good
That ending really did age like fine ass wine
Holy shit he called it
Vegas goes from loveable scrappy underdogs with beautiful uniforms to a hated team with god awful gold helmets in record time. Impressive!
Holy fuck those helmets and that stupid ass medieval theme pisses me off lol
Gold helmets? I know they have gold sweaters, but when did they have gold helmets?
@@seand1011 I think it’s their 3rd jersey kit, w/shiny gold helmets. They look brutal. The Kings copied it with shiny silver helmets, not as bad as the gold tho
Reaches Cup Final in first season followed by post-season heartbreaks, like the Blues
Uniform redesign that everyone hates, like the California Seals & their white skates
@@seand1011 they debuted them back in February. They wear them with the gray home jersey mostly. The fans actually petitioned the team to get rid of them. Check out a pic. Trust me, they’re ridiculous!
Oh you know it’s bad when there’s a 18 minute video dedicated to your team
Any video over 10 mins on your team is Bad period
Waiting for the inevitable leaf’s video
@@BlowDrogan 55, man
As a Mariners fan, I can only say… Welcome to the club. Wear a crotch guard.
Idk sometimes it benefits teams, he did ones on the Bills, Chiefs, Bengals, and they’re doing great rn
Maybe it’s what they need to get over the hump 🤔
Omg, at 14:55 when you put Johnny’s scream about Daddanov, that just brought back such a good memory
Bro im so happy he uses the sound bite
DADANOOOOOOOV! THAT MOTHER-
One of his Best meltdowns)
There's one more at 13:43 :D
That was by far his most memorable moment and is still hilarious to this day.
I'm still just so confused why the Knights fired Gerard Gallant for Peter DeBoer especially after seeing what incredible work Gallant did to the Rangers.
Just a team with no heart and soul and no loyalty. The Gallant firing and Fleury trade have never made any sense. Going for mark stone and Lehner made no sense. I could go on and on.
Team is a sham and just the new Cirque on ice show in Las Vegas.
Or what "incredible" job DeBoer did for Sharks
This is a Lou Lamoriello special. Got that? Good.
Barry Trotz was fired by The Isles. Head scratching. Rumor goes that when DeBoer gets canned in Vegas, Lou will bring DeBoer to The Island.
@@Hiccuple Fleury was one of the worst starters in the league and the Knights goaltending as a whole wad one of the worst in the league at the time a young-ish guy freshly of a Vezina nomination was being offered at bellow market value. Since then, Fleury won his Vezina and went right back to being one of the worst starters in the league behind a defencive corp ranked around 10th in the league, the same ranking the Knights had when Lehner was first aquired (results vary from model to model). Youre either being purposely obtuse or did not pay attention to the team at the time. As for Stone, he's been one of the best players in his position and excellent for the Knights; he is a little less justified, but its not like the Knights lost much on his acquisition (the only argument to be made here is that he cemented the team's bad habit of always chasing big names rather than just sticking to a successful corp. His contract might also be a problem 3 years from now, but thats a different problem all toguether)
Gallant has been very bad here in NY. Outclassed behind the bench by Sullivan, his player deployment is a joke, willingly played 4/5 of the worst players in the league in terms of possession and shot generation often times more than the obviously talented young players, it took him until game 5 of the playoffs to finally realize Patrick nemeth is the worst defenseman in the league. His unrequited love for big immobile veteran dmen is painful. Who actually plays the worst 4th line in the league more than a surprisingly good line of 20-22 year olds who generate some of the most offense on the team/60
Who’s here when the Knights won the Stanley Cup one year after this video released the Tree jinx lives on
5 Knights videos from Tree are one win away from becoming Historical Pieces.
17:29 Tree called it!
@@Donald_the_Potholer Dude, if the Kraken end up winning it all next year, too. Yes.
@@AutoArtemAuto he's actually more cautious with them, hope they can succeed
17:32 You predicted the future
Yes he did. I’m writing this with 17:36 minutes left in the 3rd period
17:30 I'll be damned, you called it.
Thanks Tree for the Championship!
The Vegas Knights got me into hockey, and I can’t believe how badly the organization has mismanaged such a perfect situation. It’s embarrassing being a fan. I’ve never felt like this as a SF 49ers, Giants, or Warriors fan, even when each of these teams were bottom of the barrel losers.
Not every move was bad! Patches and Stone were amazing gets that we don’t regret. The 3 big moves that totally screwed us:
Firing Gallant
Signing Pietrangelo
Trading Fleury
Gallant wasn’t fired for performance, but because he clashed with Foley and the GM… what a surprise. DeBoer sucks. Our power play under him has been pitiful. Our offense as a while is pathetic. How DeBoer is still around while Gallant was on such a short leash makes zero sense…
Pietrangelo is a great player, but we didn’t need him. We had plenty of depth and traded it all to while also signing away all the cap space. Our cap situation wouldn’t be too too atrocious if we didn’t sign him. Trading for Lehner was an awesome move, but extending him and trading away Fleury were 2 horrible moves.
And Fleury… there’s no words that can truly explain the betrayal true Vegas fans feel. He was the Vezina, who wanted to retire as a Knight. It turns out management saw him as a bridge goalie since the moment he became a Knight. Vegas’ management is idiotic, shameful, stubborn, arrogant, and spineless…
I might be one of the few fans who loved the Eichel trade. Once healthy and next to Stone, Pacioretty, and Marchessault he should return to form. Again, if we didn’t pay Pietrangelo the cap situation wouldn’t be that terrible.
Gallant and Fleury were, still are, and will always be beloved by the city. We had it all, a great present, bright future, a team that was exciting and lovable… and gone in the blink of an eye.
Your power play only sucks under DeBoer because of the incriminating photos Spott clearly has on him.
Giants warriors and 49ers fan but didn’t choose the Sharks. Why?
I can tell you why: because San Jose is crap. As a lifelong Sabres fan, I've gotten into the habit of finding real teams to cheer for. I got on the San Jose bandwagon during Logan's rookie year. Those Sharks teams were so goddamn stacked, and they still found a way to break my heart every single goddamn year.
DeBoer. What an obviously horrible choice, lmao.
Even as a Sharks fan, that Fleury trade had me scratching my head thinking, "Why on earth are you basically betraying everything he did for your team?" He's a beast, he's a brick wall, and they get rid of him? Over Twitter? He's earned far more respect, even from the Sharks, to have that kind of crap done to him.
video aged like a glass of milk in the south beach sun
Late, but I definitely get that pun at the end
"Now watch as this becomes hideously out of date next year as they go deep in the playoffs again." Yup you are right, we are back in the WCF
And it's not only a rematch of the 2020 bubbles WCF, it's also against your old coach.
Cup Champs now…..
17:30 Hello…..It happened…….Lol
"Making the Cup in their first year created an addict- someone who craves the thrill of winning the jackpot again while not having the experience to ground themselves in reality nor the mental fortitude to handle it." -amazing Vegas analogy by Tree
...and now they finally hit the jackpot
You blessed us with this video. I thank you. This is glorious. Go. Knights. Go.
We all knew this was coming. Tree held out for the right time to unload on them. Every other team and fanbase will revel in this. Didn't take long for them to become the villain by their own hands.
I don’t think this was posted at the right time🤣 They won the cup right after. Thanks Tree!!
And now they won the Stanley Cup. The addition of Bruce Cassidy, Ivan Barbashev improved the squad and instrumental in their Stanley Cup victory.
17:29 IT HAPPENED
The tree jinx strikes again.
17:30 "I'll see you next year when they win the Cup!"
Welp...
The foresight this man has is absolutely unbelievable.
@@thekingbarrelmaker7642 To be fair, it's not that hard to have foresight on things like this when you've been burned before, as Tree undoubtedly had been. The most notable examples I can think of before this are the Capitals and Nationals LoF vids and the Dodgers 2019 "Congrats" vid.
This man actually made an accurate prediction for once
The demise does look kinda nice.
The Cherry on top for it all was when Tuch stole the puck from Eichel to shot the game winning goal. The guy they traded away for him sealed their fate.
Didn’t Krebs score in that game too? Buffalo really did well with the trade
For real everyone was cheering for Buffalo that night and now they have completely fleeced Vegas with them missing the playoffs and giving up their first round pick.
That was beautiful.
I was hoping VGK would miss the playoffs by a single point so Eichel would have known that loss in Buffalo cost them the playoffs. Funny while some were angry with Eichel before that game, his comments after that game drove even sympathetic Sabres fans away.
What do you say now? Lol
It feels great watching this vid after winning it all now
Vegas has won a cup after just 6 years!!
When Vegas had their first season, I bought in. It was a great run, fueled by the vegas shooting, nothing could have gone wrong.
And then everything went wrong.
Literally everything went wrong.
The curse of Vegas.
This team is like crypto looks really good but always has a chance to completely collapse
I think we all bought in
@@uzi_the_drone God damn, that was good.
I'm back to this Video, because VGK are currently at the SCF. If they win at all, Utree made again a Jinxed Video before the Team in question are going to to win the whole thing. In Utree words:
**"THEY KEEP WINNING!!!"**
glad to know this aged about as well as the Caps legacy of failure
Wow, I feel terrible for Fleury, they treated him like shit
Blackhawks treated him way better. They actually consulted him about being traded and he wanted to go to Minnesota.
He knew a month ahead of time that there was a trade coming they just didn't know when exactly.
Fleury was the face of the franchise that they chewed up and spit out. One of the worst betrayals of a player by a team I've ever seen.
It's mind blowing and crazy that they traded the vezina winner after he had just won it that season. People would pay just to see him. I just can't even imagine teams like the Lakers doing that to Kobe or Yankees doing that to Derek Jeter or spurs doing that to Tim Duncan or who have you.
Lets not forget that Lehner is a recovering alcohol addict and someone who went throught a lot of therapy for anxiety and depression
only for vegas to fuck him over
great fucking job, Vegas
Lol like this hasn’t happened thousands of times in pro sports already
This aged beautifully
Here after Vegas won the Cup!!
Looks like this video worked. Vegas is going back to the Finals!
16:14 And they did!
Urinating Tree you have been an inspiration to mediocre sports franchises
This aged well
Gonna watch this video one last time while it's still relevant.
Who woulda guessed THIS would be the video that wouldn't age well?
17:28 - he knew. As someone else pointed out, he did videos about this like the Caps and Blues back in 2017 and within the next two years they both aged like milk. Tree doing a video about your team failing is usually a great sign you're about to win the cup. Except the Leafs, not even tree is strong enough for the curse of Toronto.
Now the Golden Knights are in the Stanley Cup Final for the 2nd time ever
And the Golden Knights are your Stanley Cup Champions!
Yes, I'll take "UTree Vids That Aged Poorly for $1000," Mayim.
Tree, they won the cup
You called it. You are the clairvoyant
14:51 the shoutout to 2BC is legendary
Oh no this makes me sad as a fan of America’s most beloved team the mighty VGK! - Gary.
BOOOOOOOOO
@@philtorrez4198 He surprisingly wasn't booed during Marleau's retirement announcement. He wasn't physically there but he had a video statement.
Who’s here after Vegas won the Stanley Cup and killed another Urinatingtree video
Tree is. 🤣
Great call on the cup win! Go knights baby!
THE VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS ARE YOUR 2023 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS
While I don’t agree with everything in this video, this is some of the most honest reporting on the golden knights from an outside source I’ve seen and it’s quite refreshing. Thanks tree. Keep it up
This is where the Term, “You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the Villian” comes into play. And Vegas did just that.
My favorite part about this? Jack Eichel abandoned the Sabres because he wanted to have a real shot at the cup
So he picked the Knights
Didn't he want the surgery for his neck but the Sabres tried to low ball him?
@@Sharky_Splitz he asked to be traded a year before he needed surgery
To be fair, Eichel needed to get out of that shitshow to _anywhere possible_ or risk permanent damage.
Last year at this time if I were to tell you that Sabres fans would be laughing at and mocking Knights fans, you would tell me I was a crazy person.
@@philly_sports1558 I don’t mock Knights fans, I mock the organization. Leafs fans, yes, but not the Knights
Tree does it again…The Vegas Golden Knights are your Stanley Cup Champions!
Vegas was made to get Ovechkin a cup win.
I've been a sports fan my whole life.
Die hard Giants fan. Hate the Dodgers per tradition.
Die hard 49ers fan. Hate the Rams and Seahawks per tradition
Die hard Sharks fan. Hated the Kings per tradition.
Then Vegas came along.
I hate Vegas more than I hate any other of those teams by a significant margin. They literally just make my fucking blood boil. The pure joy that I experienced when the Sharks came back and won in Game 7 was euphoric.
Fuck the Knights.
Die hard bay area fans 🤝 Die hard LA sports fans
Fuck the knights.
Could not agree more
SJ 🤝 LA
Any reason why you hate Vegas so much? Every fan base talks smack so that's not a legit excuse
@@vulcanraven9701 I have nothing against the team itself, nor the fanbase, but I dislike the VGK management and how they treat their players and coaches, honestly if Vegas doesn’t take it straight, it will end up like Eugene Melnyk and the Ottawa Senators situation hope they fix this by this summer
@@magnabaddelta-thriller5603 we agree on that
Update: Pete DeBoer has been "relieved of his head coaching duties" as of May 16th
Duh duh duh. Another one bites the dust!
A year later, they have seemingly learned to cool their tits and it has worked. I’m not a Knights fan, but I wouldn’t mind if they win the cup this year. Mainly since if they do make the Cup final, a first time champion will be crowned. And that’s my favorite part of sports.
I'm glad our organization has humbled down lot. Results show. Now it's time to win a cup for las vegas! Go knights go!!⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️
Ultimate tree jinx, first it was the capitals, then it was the blues, and now Vegas got their cup too 😢
Don't forget what he did to the Lightning after that Columbus playoff sweep. This dude is the ultimate jinxer.
Looks like Tree has another archive vid, as he said: Vegas won the Stanley Cup one year after this video.
17:30 for reference
Anyone come back here when the knights just made the Stanley Cup Final?
I believe the real question is when we WON the Stanley Cup Final
That Vegas vs San Jose series was incredible. Craziest game seven I've ever seen. (Flames fan)
Vegas fan, born/raised, Tree is 100% right. The first year spoiled us/management and i dont blame everyone for hating us due to how management treated basically everyone since. One thing i think needs to be mentioned that people often forget- we had the worst shooting in US history a week or so before our home opener in 2017. Vegas is a large city but almost everyone knew someone who was at that concert and it really shook the city. The Knights that first month and throughout the season were an incredible source for helping the city heal somewhat and made them endeared to us from the start. I think that connection from the beginning helped alot with them winning games. Now that beloved team has become a shell of itself and I can tell you for certain that many knights fans in vegas are not happy either at the way we've done business.
I agree. That first group of players played way over their heads that year and I think having the whole city come together like that was a huge boost and a major part of their success, but management failed to realize it and went after big-name players instead of building on the heart and character that the team already had.
Well at least you still have the Raiders. You lost a scrappy team but you gained another.
@@ohnobro1424 but then Josh McDaniels happened
@@ChiefBlue4298 yeah 😬
Fuck that guy.
Find it weird watching this after Vegas won their first Stanley Cup.
Ending this with the Sharks scoring the last second goal was priceless. They're going to kill each other next year.
Shitting on the Golden Knights? This sharks fan is salivating at every second 🦈🤤
Canes fan here praising the almighty powers of the Tree jinx for gifting my team Patches.
2:08 Sorry Tree, but that was a loaded talent pool chalk full of top 6 forwards but light on defense save for Fleury. Not to mention their GM was openly threatening to take specific players and naming names, (something Bettman put a stop to right before the deadline but it was too little too late,) resulting in teams offering up prospects and draft picks for them to walk away from specific players he named. This set the table for a very stacked Knights team that the Canadian pundits predicted to make the playoffs in a weak Pacific division.
They had the deck stacked in their favor unlike Seattle which was an overcorrection on the league's part.
Love that Tree had that 2BCSuperb reference with Dadonov
Had to come back to this video to see the end of it. Tree is a goddamn prophet.
We’ll probably get a Golden Knights Legacy of Failure video in 2069
Fear and loathing with Lord Stanley's Cup!
1 year later and the Knights are one game away from their 2nd Finals appearance. Tree has the touch of shitting on people to make them a threat again.
The tree curse 😂
Well Well Well would you look at Mark Stone he has a good looking cup docent he?
The dadonov scream in the background is beautiful
Finishing the video and I get a notification that deboers been fired, Sins of the past will haunt vegas for eternity
One of the first Tree videos I saw was about Vegas as an expansion team. Feels like we've come full circle
Urinatingtree makes this video, I'm going to Las Vegas this week and the Knights win the Stanley Cup! Wow how the fuck did Tree and I did that?
I see that the Golden Knights took everyone laughing at them last year personally and decided to stomp everything in their path to win their first cup.
What you’re hearing is all of Canada triggered since they won the cup. Boston too since their old coach won in his first year in LV too.
dude your hitman soundtrack usage gets me everytime you're so good at choosing songs
Great timing of a video. Pete DeBoar was just fired.
"They gave up 4 Power Play Goals in 5 Minutes!" That quote describes the Golden Knights since that day.
Kinda reminds me of the 5min major against new Jersey in the finals of 2012
@@TheKisj Yeah that was bad too
That's how a supposed Stanley Cup contender self-destructs.
Time to update this and add max
Oh my god is this ANOTHER jynx in the making?
Well this aged well. Too well.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention that the Knights injury excuse holds a lot less water when considering that the Kings were up there with them in man games lost, played half the season without Doughty, at one point were playing 5 or 6 minor league call ups on d because everyone else was hurt (I think Maata was the only non-call up at the time). And on paper aren’t a good enough team to handle that, and still finished ahead of Vegas
And very nearly beat Edmonton in round one as well.
Providing they don't squeeze a cup out of this core, I'm going to theorize that the Kraken will be a better team than the Knights in four years
Yep, and all it will take is time to form and build chemistry and a good team. But they need to be patient and Seattle will be awarded greatly
I think they need to fore Hakstol first. He's not the guy
@@seadav0183 if he's there after two or three seasons, I'd be surprised. I felt like they just grabbed a name in the coaching Rolodex that had experience, but wouldn't break the bank.
The curse of the Vegas Golden Knights is over, in just 6 years.
THE SUFFERING IS OVER IN VEGAS! Congratulations, Golden Knights!
Mmm... this aged well.
As a Sharks fan, you have no idea how happy I was when we beat them this year. Not only did we get our first win against them in 3 WHOLE YEARS, but we also helped contribute to them missing the playoffs. Us fans celebrated like we had just won the Cup
The MN wild fan base celebrated their failure.
I hate em. Always will. That round one, game seven comeback was epic. I miss Pavs.✌️🇺🇸
Us Blues fans feel the same way
@@icecoldpolitics8890 Your team was eliminated last night and all you can think of is Vegas, that's about as rent free as it gets. I don't blame people for being overjoyed at their failure though.
Sharks in 30 years- 1 conference championship
Knights in 5 years- 1 conference championship
I see where the pettiness stems from.